NC Services & Support

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (UNC at Chapel Hill)
(919) 966-2131

Infertility – Web sites serving North Carolina (NC Health Info)

RESOLVE Infertility Support Group
N.C. Women's Hospital, Chapel Hill
2nd Thursday of the month
7:00-8:00 PM
Call 843-1759 for more info.

 

Recommended Books on Infertility

The Baby Solution: Your Essential Resource for Overcoming Infertility
Daniel Kenigsberg (2006)
Covers the array of reproductive technologies: IVF, IUI, ISCI, and other options. Includes advice on choosing a doctor and clinic, avoiding hard-sell techniques, deciding when to stop treatment, and dealing with insurance and other financial concerns. Also describes tests, procedures, and treatments, listing the chances of pregnancy for each technique and explaining the risks and emotional aspects.

How to Get Pregnant: The Classic Guide to Overcoming Infertility
Sherman J. Silber (2005)
This revised and expanded text, first published in 1981, reviews the female and male anatomies and the physiology of conception, mechanisms for "beating your biological clock"; and procedures to help overcome previously unmanageable fertility problems.

What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant: The Complete Guide to All the Technologies for Couples Facing Fertility Problems
Daniel A. Potter, Jennifer S. Hanin (2005)
Outlines the reproductive system and shows how to recognize infertility. Provides guidance on choosing a doctor and discussion of what to expect of an infertility workup, what such a workup might find, and how to assess treatment options. Other topics include sperm and egg donation; embryo donation and surrogacy; technologies that allow prescreening for genetic diseases, sex selection, and preselection of desirable traits; keeping a relationship healthy; deciding when to move on; and the role that legal and mental health professionals play in all these processes. Also includes a glossary and resource list of organizations.

The Conception Chronicles: The Uncensored Truth About Sex, Love & Marriage When You're Trying To Get Pregnant
Patty Doyle Debano & others (2005)
Provides thorough information about diagnosis, treatment options, and the dilemmas and strains of infertility. Personal stories of friends who have faced infertility and emails by the authors are interspersed throughout the book.

Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility
Janet Jaffe & others (2005)
Presents a psychological analysis of infertility based on the premise that everyone has a reproductive story. Part 1 describes infertility as a trauma that must be recognized and dealt with; Part 2 explains why it is so painful; Part 3 defines the steps of grieving and coping; and Part 4 provides information to assist readers in rewriting their reproductive histories as they go through treatment.

 

Web Links on Infertility

Infertility (National Women's Health Information Center) 

Infertility/Fertility (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Multiple Pregnancy and Birth: Considering Fertility Treatments (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) 

Age and Fertility (American Society for Reproductive Medicine)

Male Infertility (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Spanish 

Management of Male Infertility (American Urological Association)
Spanish 

Psychological Component of Infertility (American Society for Reproductive Medicine)
Spanish 

Infertility Tests (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)

Glossary of Infertility Terms (International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination)

Ask an Infertility Specialist (Mayo Clinic)

Find a Reproductive Endocrinologist (Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility) 

State Infertility Insurance Laws (American Society for Reproductive Medicine)

Infertility – MedlinePlus 

Ovarian Cysts – MedlinePlus 

Adoption – MedlinePlus

 

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